Historical origin of Xuzhou sachet
Its history can be traced back at least to the Warring States period. The long poem "Peacock flies to the southeast" has "red Luo Gaidou, four corners hanging sachets" in Han Yuefu; There is a saying in the Book of Rites of Han Dynasty: "Men and women who are not crowned ... wear tassels and stink." Smell is a sachet, indicating that underage men and women in Han Dynasty wore sachets. Xuzhou is the birthplace of Chinese culture, so it can be said that the craft of Xuzhou sachet appeared in the Han Dynasty. At that time, the sachets were all made of high-grade splendid flowers, and the roots of Maoxiang were stored or mixed with spices such as Flos Magnoliae. Through the Tang and Song Dynasties, to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, especially in the early Qing Dynasty, sachet has become a token of love, and sachet has been popular as an accessory for some time. After thousands of years of development and evolution, Xuzhou sachet technology with Xuzhou local characteristics has gradually formed. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, sachets were no longer simple daily necessities, but were endowed with humanistic values. In the Qing Dynasty, Continued Ancient Mirror said that sachets gradually became a kind of thing to show off their wealth. Some gentry, wealthy businessmen and vendors were not only better than Yu Pei in taste, but also the people who made sachets, with the luxury of horse thief and materials and inlaid gold and precious stones, apparently once became big money in the market.